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overgeeked replied to the thread Winning and losing in RPGs....Despite not getting the whole win or lose mentality, this is something I do get. Modern players invest a lot of time and energy into... -
overgeeked replied to the thread Winning and losing in RPGs....Exactly. There seems to be a least some undercurrent of competition and competitiveness. I'm lucky that I haven't had that experience...
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Win vs. lose implies competition (player vs. GM, player vs. players). I don't "get" how it applies to this particular hobby, unless...
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I personally have found that open ended nature to be the most useful way to explain the design/structural challenges of the RPG vs...
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overgeeked replied to the thread Winning and losing in RPGs....Exactly. It's one reason why all this talk of winning and losing and various sports, marathon, or game analogies just fall flat for me...
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The concepts of winning and losing are difficult in a story-based, episodic game...which most RPGs are. My take on it: an RPG is a...
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overgeeked reacted to Ralif Redhammer's post in the thread Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+] with
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We had the torch go out while we were exploring a room, but I immediately could see how dangerous it going out in combat would be. As it... -
Years ago I was DMing for two young nephews, and when one of them (9 y.o. at the time) was disappointed about failing a climbing check...
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When I was a kid and through to college years, when I would get home from a D&D session my mom would invariably ask, "Did you win?"...
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This probably would have been something similar to my default answer. That said, in the best games I've experienced, players are able...
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My approach is that I win if I and the group I play with have fun playing. I lose if we don't have fun. That might be a "cute" answer...
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For most games, there are conditions which are met that will end the game immediate. When a player is put into checkmate, or they...
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overgeeked reacted to Mercurius's post in the thread OSR What does OSR mean to you? What do you value most in an OSR game? with Like.
Or another way to put it, Spelljammer was a bit of a throwback to 70s-era science fantasy. Planescape, on the other hand, was very much...
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I tend to think "win/lose" is better suited to games with "endings". To me, a RPG is structured to be more "open-ended", so I tend to...
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overgeeked replied to the thread Daggerheart General Thread [+].There's a lot of different ways you could do things. Lots of different systems and subsystems to borrow from in the OSR and NSR scenes...